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Show REPORT OF LYNCHING APPARENTLY A FAKE RENO, Nov.. April 11. Groat excitement ex-citement prevailed here this morning when train No. 10 pulled in from tho west and a man and woman reported thnt they had seen a crowd' of men around n telegraph polo near Laughton Springs, five miles west, while a body of a man dangled and kicked furious-lv furious-lv from the ond of the rope. Sheriff Ferrell, who was among tho crowd at tho depot, at onco notified tho police, and. obtaining an automobile, in which woro thc sheriff, Chief of Police Burke, Deputv Ckristio and another officer, hurried to tho scene of lho reported lynching. Tho officers searched carefully care-fully and examined many pcoplo, but they found no one having seen or heard of such an occurrence. The officers of-ficers continued searching for signs of mob violence and questioning pcoplo, pco-plo, most, of whom wcro fishermen, as far as Verdi, fourteen miles north. They finally gave up the search and returned to Reno much disgusted. |